Swire Coca-Cola Shrinks Water Footprint
Swire Coca-Cola’s, the third largest independent bottler in the US, has implemented several water management initiatives as part of its ongoing effort to return to nature an amount of water equivalent...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Supervalu, Ikea, Volvo, Toyota
Grocery chain Supervalu has purchased 35 Class 8 Volvo trucks that operate on compressed natural gas. To power the new trucks, Trillium CNG built and will operate a fast-fill CNG station at Supervau’s...
View ArticleXylem, Verizon Team Up on Oyster Restoration
Xylem’s YSI Integrated Systems and Services (ISS), Verizon and the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School have teamed up on a long-term oyster restoration project called the Billion Oyster Project. The...
View ArticleGE, Eli Lilly, Celgene Partner with NYC, Launch Biotech Fund
The New York City Economic Development Corporation has partnered with Celgene, GE Ventures and Eli Lilly to create a biotech fund called the Life Sciences Funding Initiative. The city will put in $50...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Green Globes, SCS and LEED, Recycled Asphalt
ECD Energy and Environment Canada has released a new version of Green Globes for New Construction Canada, based largely on a Canadian adaptation of ANSI/GBI 01-2010 – Green Building Assessment Protocol...
View ArticleLEED v4 ‘Will Shorten Project Time’
The US Green Building Council’s updated green building certification system, LEED v4, will shorten project time, the Triangle Business Journal reports. Raleigh LEED Fellow Douglas Brinkley of...
View ArticleGM Renaissance Center Sends Zero Waste to Landfill
The General Motors Renaissance Center now recycles, reuses or converts all its waste to energy, diverting 5 million pounds of trash annually from landfill. The automaker says the Renaissance Center — a...
View ArticleGreen Globes Wins DoD Endorsement
In another victory for the Green Globes, the US Department of Defense has decided to allow its facilities to use the green building certification program. While the US Green Building Council’s LEED...
View ArticleIntegrated Reporting ‘Can Restore Trust in Business’
The IIRC’s publication of its Integrated Reporting Framework has won praise from the accounting world. The framework does what it promises, bringing together all of a business’s material information...
View ArticleCleantech to Rebound in 2014, Kachan Predicts
A broad cleantech recovery, the rise of crowdfunding, risk to electric vehicle growth rates and surprises in rare earth element industry profits lead cleantech research and consultancy Kachan &...
View ArticleSustainability Trends Impacting Retailers in 2014
Retail hazardous waste management is an incredibly complex industry from both a logistics and regulatory standpoint. There’s only one constant—it is always changing. Definitions of which materials are...
View ArticleAirport Recycling Program Turns Waste Cooking Oil into Biodiesel
Airport concessions developer Airmall USA has partnered with Greenlight Biofuels to recycle waste cooking oil from tenants in the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s...
View ArticleABB’s Latest DCIM System Offers New Reports, More Safeguards
ABB has introduced Decathlon Version 3.1, the latest release of its data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system, which offers new reports, increased flexibility and more safeguards for managing...
View ArticleCemex Launches Water Management Policy
Cemex has implemented a corporate water policy that it says outlines its global water management strategy and acts as a framework for the development of local water conservation and efficiency...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: RFS, EPA Bee Suit, McCarthy in China
The American Petroleum institute and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers filed a court brief on Monday accusing the EPA of ignoring a series of legal deadlines for the Renewable Fuel...
View ArticlePraxair Starts Up CO2 Purification Facility
Praxair has fired up its carbon dioxide purification facility at the Honeywell Resins & Chemicals site in Hopewell, Va. Under a long-term agreement, Praxair will purchase CO2 from Honeywell Resins...
View ArticleHow to Grow Packaging From Cotton Waste
A team of scientists with the Agricultural Research Service has developed agricultural waste blends that can be combined with fungi to literally grow custom packaging material. The biodegradable...
View ArticleSiemens Awarded Ballast Water Technology Patent
The US Patent Office has awarded Siemens Water Technologies a patent for a system and method to control biofouling of filters used as a first stage of treating ballast water in its SeaCure Ballast...
View Article5 Steps to a Sustainable Supply Chain
Trusting your partners, treating other businesses how you would wish to be treated and extending participation beyond the first tier of suppliers are just three of the five key steps to building a...
View ArticleJudges Tussle with EPA Air Pollution Rules
Supreme Court justices seem sympathetic to the EPA’s arguments in the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule case, which the court heard yesterday. Most of the eight judges hearing the case voiced some support...
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